Incredible Photos of Snow Blanket Covering Entire NFL Team Buffalo Bills' Stadium Go Viral

• Amazing photos of Mother Nature at her most unforgiving are going viral on the internet
• The Buffalo Bills, of the National Football League, shared images of their home stadium covered entirely in metres and metres of snow
• This saw the league decide to relocate the encounter between the Bills and Cleveland Browns from the Highmark Stadium to Detroit

Some of the most amazing photos of a sports venue are making the rounds on the internet.

They showed the Highmark Stadium, the home stadium of National Football League team the Buffalo Bills, being blanketed metres over by snow.

This resulted in the league deciding to relocate the Bills' fixture against the Cleveland Browns from the city to Detroit Lions' Ford Field Stadium in Michigan.

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The last time something like this happened was when the New Orleans Saints had to temporarily play away from the Louisiana Superdome after it was damaged during the Hurricane Katrina Disaster of August 2005.

Rugby vs American Football: Which is the tougher contact sport and why?

In 19th-century England, the game of rugby was born, which bore similarities to modern-day soccer.

British colonists and the military brought the game to North America, where the natives tweaked the rules, excluding the power and adding entertainment. American football came into being over time. All deviations require intense physical aggression, but which of them is the tougher contact sport and why?

With the shared ancestry of the two sports, there are bound to be some similarities and differences between them. Deciding which sport is more brutal is attributed to power, strength, agility, endurance, speed, nerve, durability and coordination. This article explores the nature of both sports.

In both sports, two competing teams attempt to advance an oval ball down a field to the opposing team's score line or kick it over goalposts. The team not possessing the ball defends by tackling the player with the ball or snatching it. The main differences between the two are the number of players, the field and equipment used, game action, how the ball can be advanced, and the number of points awarded for various ways of scoring.